Railroad-rail tie and fastening



J. FRYSINGER.

l RAILROAD RAIL- TIR ANDEASTRNING. No., 400,558. PatentedApr. 2, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

' JACOB FRYSINGER, OF MILAN, ILLINOIS.

RAILROAD-RAIL T'IE AND FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 400,558, dated April2, 1889.

Application led June 25, 1888. Serial No. 278,189. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB FRYSINGER, o Milan, in the county of RockIsland and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Railroad-Rail Ties and Fast- -placement-mov ing toward each other orspreading apart-while provisionis also made to permit ofthe readyremoval of a worn-out tie and its replacement by a new one, and toeffect the expeditious laying or putting down of t-he track; and tothese ends the nature of the invention consists of a tie formed of upperand lower bars and an intermediate bar interposed between and edgewiseto the aforesaid bars and endwise to the sleepers, and of certaindetails of construction, substantially as hereinafter more fullydescribed and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a transverse section. of myimproved railroadrail tie and fastening; and Figs. 2 and 3 are alsosectional views of the same, taken on the lines 2 2 and 3 3,respectively. A

In carrying Yout my invention I take three flat or plate-like bars, A AA, to form the tie. The upper and lower bars, A A, are arranged onebelow the stringers a a vand the other above, and is received intransverse grooves or recesses h b in the upper surfaces of thestringers. The grooves or recesses b b effect the holding of the tie andstringers in their relative positions. Through the b'ars A A and thestringers are passed screw-bolts c o, securing the same together. Theother or intermediate platelike bar, A', is disposed edgewise betweenand let into shallow channels or grooves d ol in the upper and lowerplate-like bars, A A, and between the stringers a o. The plate Aitselfis thus retained in its edgewise position and against lateraldisplacement, while 'the stringers are' also held against lateraldisplacement, the plate vA immediately' preventing theinward lateralmovement of the stringers, while the plates A prevent their outwardlateral movement. The rail-chairs are formed of clampplates e e, restingupon the upper one of the plate-like bars A and the flanges of therails, the same bolts, c c, as connect together the said bars andstringers, passing through said clamp-plates or chairs and tted with.nuts, thus securing the tie, stringers, rails, and chairs all togetherina simple and expeditious manner.

From the foregoing it will also be seen that when it is desired to renewa worn-out part or parts it is only necessary to remove the nuts of thescrew-bolts and lift the upper plate-like bar out of the grooves orrecesses of the stringers, which will permit the removal of thedefective part or parts and the replacement thereof by a sound or newpart or parts, as the case may be also, the several parts of the track,formed as above described, are readily and easily handled-enabling theexpeditious putting down or laying of the track.

The stringers may be made or metal.

either of wood what l claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isyl. The railroad-rail tie-fastening consisting of the upper and lowerbars and an intermediate bar interposed between and edgewise to theaforesaid bars and endwise to the sleepers, substantially as set forth.

2. The railroad-rail tie consisting of the upper and lower plate-likebars and an intermediate edgewise-disposed plate-like bar let intogrooves or channels in the aforesaid bars, substantially as set forth.

3. Therailroad-rail tie consisting of the upper and lower plate-likebars and an intermediate edgewise-disposed plate-like bar let intogrooves or channels in the upper and lower bars, the upper and lowerbars being arranged one above and let into transverse grooves orrecesses in the upper surfaces of the stringers, and the lower one belowthe stringers, substantially as specified.

4. The railroad-rail tie comprising the upper and lower plate-like barsand an intermediate,edgewise-disposed plate-like bar let into groovesVor channels of the upper and lowerbars, and the chairs consisting ofclampplates resting upon the upper bar and held in place by boltspassing through said upper and lower bars, substantially as vset forth.

JACOB FRYSINGER.

e JAMES H. SoUTHwELL.

Having thus full-y described my invention,

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